Charleston Sightseeing and Attractions
- Edmondston-Alston House
- Work 843-722-7171
- 21 East Battery Charleston, SC 29401
- www.middletonplace.org
The stately Edmondston-Alston House was built in 1825 on Charleston’s High Battery and is one of the city’s most splendid dwellings. A witness to many dramatic events in Charleston’s history – look seaward from the second floor piazza where Gen. Beauregard watched the bombardment of Fort Sumter. The Edmondston-Alston House is a classic example of the city’s changing and sophisticated taste in architecture and decorative arts, and is a repository of fine family treasures. Alston family silver, furniture, books and paintings remain in place much as they have been for over a century and a half. The Edmondston-Alston House is a house museum of the Middleton Place Foundation.